Politifact reminds SNL that Obama didn't promise to withdraw from Iraq or close Gitmo this early

SNL mocked Obama a couple of days ago for accomplishing "nothing" so far, including not having closed Guantanamo and withdrawn all our troops from Iraq, among other tings. But the non-partisan Politifact.com notes:



http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/oct/05/saturday-night-live-obama-campaign-promises/

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Sarah Palin never actually said the words "I can see Russia from my house," either, but SNL took her earlier statements on Russia and Alaska and ran with it.

It's political satire. And Obama needs to be reminded that we want results. If it takes a little humor to get the point across, I'm game.

Its not "putting pressure on Obama", its misrepresenting the truth entirely and it ain't funny.

"They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska."

You're getting results.

cynical chic. that's all it is. :puke:

the "left" happen all the time.

They lose their validity..which is too bad..they'd have enough reality to rage on about but no. Lying to get their way? No problem.

If they say, next week, that "Obama has failed to work with Congress repeal abortion rights," that'll be hilarious too!

And why I failed to find the humor in that sketch, because I simply couldn't connect its irony to anything in reality.

but it happens with statire I don't think it's that big of a deal.

I'll keep that in mind when we try to get people to vote in 2010 that we got to vote in 2008.

How does that make him a better president?

Why hasn't he fixed everything already?? He's been in office for a whole 9 months! It's not like he has 4 years to fix Bush's mess.

He hasn't done ANYTHING!!

Why, Obama, Why?

:cry:

Rendition is outsourcing of torture.

equate to waving pom-poms?

You're dropping that bar conveniently low just to level an insult.

Really, if you're going to drag out these tired, overused canards, you might as well do it right.

See what I did there? :evilgrin:

.... except for a bit at the very end.

Compare that to sketches they did about Palin .... or even this one they did making fun of the President's calm nature...

http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/1246959

When the audience agrees with what they're saying, they cheer ..... all I heard was a bit of nervous ("OMG! Are they going there!!!") laughter.

God I love the short attention span of the knee jerk posters around this place.

Sure take Obama to task but at least make it funny. I was wondering if there was some gofer holding up laugh and applause signs.

Stop acting like you were personally attacked.

Why in the fuck would I contact NBC?

Here's how I would have written it though: I would have had him in a mock campaign ad, starting his run for re-election WAY EARLY, during the US Tennis Open that concluded recently. I would have had him reading from the teleprompter, looking like he were watching a tennis match. When Serena threw her fit, I would have him inviting her to join his team on health care reform.

It's fucking comedy. My. Fucking. Goodness.

Saturday night, one of the last things I said to the Ms. was something to the effect of "Oh Boy, I can't wait to see how many DUers are offended to the core over this". Glad to say I wasn't disappointed. Some pretty funny reading yesterday, and well, today also it now seems.

So we fact check comedy now that Obama is President, and ask that fellow believers contact the source. A sure sign that this country is beyond repair...

1. Obama promised to get out of Iraq. He didn't give an exact date. He said that he would get out of Iraq "responsibly." And I think he said most troops out in 16 months and all troops should be completely out no later than 2013. It is a phased withdrawal.
2. Obama did promise to close Gitmo but didn't say when.
3. The health care slam was simply unfair. It's not necessarily Obama's fault directly that nothing has been done, though I think he could have been more forceful in the beginning, and I think he should have step out sooner to attack Republican lies. But he can't do much to control the corporatists in his party.
4. Afghanistan was not his war. He had stated repeatedly that the job wasn't finished there, so he had to finish it. It's so incredibly unfair to attack Obama when he did not create this mess in the first place.

by only addressing right wing anger toward the #1 issue in the nation of potential health care reform and by giving in to the right wing's label of "communism or nazism", even if only done obliquely by humor it carried right wing water.

Left wing anger over lack of progress regarding health care and knowledge of very real death panels under the existing for profit "health" coverage system eluded SNL's satire.

I believe this is because they know NBC just like the rest of the corporate media wouldn't sell as many commercials to "health" insurance corporations and Big Pharma if the people had universal, single payer, Medicare coverage for every American from the cradle to the grave.

SNL may be irreverent, and at times it may still be funny, but in the end they tow the corporate line and are nothing like the original broadcast when George Carlin hosted the program, that was satire for "We the People," today it's satire for corporations.

Thanks for the thread, rmp yellow.

I'm all for poking fun at the President (all Presidents!), but that doesn't mean they can just make shit up. Besides, it's not funny when it doesn't have the ring of thruth.

SNL's season premier was the worst show they've done in YEARS, maybe decades. Last week's was slightly better, though not much. WTF happened to them over the summer?

Comedy should veer away from such.

War is not a laughing matter,
and Gitmo isn't either.
The fact that they felt it appropriate to lampoon
these topics tell me all I need to know about SNL's writers;
they say or do anything for a laugh, as though there's something funny,
where there isn't.